Part 6
_General Fraser_ (Vol. viii., p. 586.).--Simon Fraser, Lieut.-Colonel, 24th Regiment, and Brigadier-General was second in command under Burgoyne when he advanced from Canada to New York with 7000 men in 1777. He fell at Stillwater, a short time before the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was struck by a shot from a tree, as he was advancing at the head of his troops; and died of his wound October 7, 1777. He was buried, as he had desired, in the redoubt on the field, in the front of the American army commanded by General Gates. During his interment, the incessant cannonade of the enemy covered with dust the chaplain and the officers who assisted in performing the last duties to his remains, they being within view of the greatest part of both armies. An impression long prevailed among the officers of Burgoyne's army, that if Fraser had lived, the issue of the campaign, and of the whole war, would have been very different from what it was. Burgoyne is said to have shed tears at his death. General Fraser's regiment had been employed under Wolfe in ascending the Heights of Abraham, Sept. 12, 1759; where, both before and after the fall of Wolfe, the Highlanders rendered very efficient service. His regiment was also engaged with three others under Murray at the battle of Quebec in 1760. Some incidental mention of General Fraser will be found in Cannon's _History of the 31st Regiment_, published by Furnivall, 30. Whitehall; but I am not aware of any memoirs or life of him having been published.
J. C. B.
_Namby-Pamby_ (Vol. viii., pp 318. 390.).--Henry Carey, the author of _Chrononhotonthologos_, and of _The Dragoness of Wantley_, wrote also a work called _Namby-Pamby_, in burlesque of Ambrose Phillips's style of poetry; and the title of it was probably intended to trifle with that poet's name. Mr. Macaulay, in his Essay on _Addison and his Writings_, speaks of Ambrose Phillips, who was a great adulator of Addison, as--
"A middling poet, whose verses introduced a species of composition which has been called after his name, _Namby-Pamby_."
D. W. S.
_The Word "Miser"_ (Vol. ix., p. 12.).--Cf. the use of the word _miserable_ in the sense of miserly, mentioned amongst other Devonianisms at Vol. vii., p. 544. And see Trench's remarks on this word (_Study of Words_, p. 38. of 2nd edit.).
H. T. G.
Hull.
_The Forlorn Hope_ (Vol. viii, p. 569.), _i.e._ the advanced guard.--This explains what has always been to me a puzzling expression in Gurnall's _Christian in Complete Armour_ (p. 8. of Tegg's 8vo. edit., 1845):
"The fearful are _in the forlorn_ of those that march for hell."
See Rev. xxi. 8., where "the fearful and unbelieving" stand at the head of the list of those who "shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."
H. T. G.
Hull.
The true origin and meaning of _forlorn hope_ has no doubt been fully explained in "N & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 569. Richardson's _Dictionary_ does not countenance this view, but his example proves it conclusively. He only gives one quotation, from North's _Plutarch_; and as it stands in the dictionary, it is not easy to comprehend the passage entirely. On comparing it, however, with the corresponding passage in Langhorne (Valpy's edition, vol. iii. p. 97.), and again with Pompei's Italian version (vol. iii. p. 49.), I have no doubt that, by the term _forlorn hope_, North implied merely an advanced party; for as he is describing a pitched battle and not a siege, a modern forlorn hope would be strangely out of place.
Is _enfans perdus_ the idiomatic French equivalent, or is it only dictionary-French? And what is the German or the Italian expression?
R. CARY BARNARD.
Malta.
_Thornton Abbey_ (Vol. viii., p. 469.).--In the _Archæological Journal_, vol. ii. p. 357., may be found not only an historical and architectural account of this building, but several views; with architectural details of mouldings, &c.
H. T. G.
Hull.
_"Quid facies," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 539. Vol. ix., p. 18.).--In a curious work written by the Rev. John Warner, D.D., called _Metronariston_, these lines (as printed in Vol. ix., p. 18.) are quoted, and stated to be--
"A punning Epigram on _Scylla as a type of Lust_, cited by Barnes."
{162} I have not the _Metronariston_ with me, and therefore cannot refer to the page.
D. W. S.
_Christ-Cross-Row_ (Vol. iii., pp. 330. 465.; Vol. viii., p. 18.).--Quarles (_Embl._ ii. 12.) gives a passage from St. Augustine commencing,--"Christ's cross is the Christ-cross of all our happiness," but he gives no exact reference.
Wordsworth speaks of
"A look or motion of intelligence From infant conning of the Christ-cross-row." _Excurs._ viii. p. 305.
These lines suggest the Query, Is this term for the alphabet still in use? and, if so, in what parts of the country?
EIRIONNACH.
_Sir Walter Scott, and his Quotations from himself_ (Vol. ix, p. 72.).--I beg to submit to you the following characteristic similarity of expression, occurring in one of the poems and one of the novels of Sir Walter Scott. I am not aware whether attention has been drawn to it in the letters of Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Heber, as I have not the work at hand to consult:
"His grasp, as hard as glove of mail, Forced the red blood-drop from the nail." _Rokeby_, Canto I. Stan. 15.
"He wrung the Earl's hand with such frantic earnestness, that his grasp forced the blood to start under the nail."--_Legend of Montrose._
N. L. T.
_Nightingale and Thorn_ (Vol. viii., p. 527.).--Add Young's _Night Thoughts_, Night First, vers. 440-445.:
"Griefs sharpest thorn hard pressing on my breast, I strive with wakeful melody to cheer The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee, And call the stars to listen--every star Is deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay."
H. T. G.
Hull.
_Female Parish Clerks_ (Vol. viii., p. 474.).--Within the last half-century, a Mrs. Sheldon discharged the duties of this post at the parish church of Wheatley, five miles from Oxford, and near Cuddesdon, the residence of the Bishop of Oxford. This clerkship was previously filled by her husband; but, upon his demise, she became his successor. It is not a week since that I saw a relation who was an eye-witness of this fact.
PERCY M. HART.
Stockwell.
_Hour-glass Stand_ (Vol. ix., p. 64.).--There is an hour-glass stand of very quaintly wrought iron, painted in various colours, attached to the pulpit at Binfield, Berks.
J. R. M., M.A.
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